Printer&#39;s composing-stick.



S. H. BEAN. PRINTERS GOMPOSING STICK. APrLIoATIoN FILED MAY 5, 1909.

Patented Dec. 28, 1909.

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INT/EN T 0!? I m v WITNESSES i/KW' A tlorne a this specification,

SAMUEL H. BEAN, F ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

PRINTERS COMPOSING-STICK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 1909.

Application filed May 5, 1909. Serial No. 494,043.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL II. BEAN, citizen of the United States,residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Composing-Sticks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in printers composing sticks, andthe object thereof is to provide a stick comprising a body and a slideso constructed as to enable the setting of said slide to pica andnonpareil measures without the aid of slugs, leads, rules or quads for aguide, and also the setting of said slide to pica and nonpareilmeasures, and to other measures with the aid of slugs, leads, rules orquads for a guide.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates my invention, and forms apart of Figure l is an elevation of my improved composing stick. Fig. 2is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional viewtherethrough on line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of theslide, and, Fig. 5 is a similar view of the clasp.

In the embodiment of my invention, as shown, I provide a stick bodycomprising a plate 1, having the longitudinal base flange 2, and one endflange 8. The plate, along its upper edge, has a pica and nonpareilscale 4-, graduated thereon from the flanged end 3, and starting with anonpareil mark. The base flange 2 has a central longitudinal series ofapertures or openings 5, which are precisely one pica from center tocenter and which start from the first pica mark on scale 4.

Arranged upon the plate 1 is the slide 6, in the form of a hollowrectangle, walls 7 and 8 of which, are at right angles to one another,have their inner surfaces rounded for a purpose to be hereinafterdescribed. The slide 6, by outer measurement, is exactly two (2) inchesor twelve (12) picas square,

and is provided upon the outer surface of its wall 8 with three central,longitudinally alined projecting pins 9, 10 and 11, adapted forengagement in certain of the openings 5, the width of said slide beingequal to the width of said base flange 2 from the surface of plate 1.The pin 9, is, from its surface, exactly one pica from the outer surfaceof wall 7, while pins 10 and 11 are, from their centers, respectivelyfive and nine picas from the center of pin 9, thus leaving pin 11 onepica and one nonpareil, or three nonpareils from its surface to thesurface of wall 12, opposite wall 7. Keeping the foregoing facts inmind, it will be seen that pins 9, 10 and 11 will enter certain of theopenings 5, with the slide in the position shown in Fig. 1, or with thesame turned completely over or reversed. Thus if slide is turned andplaced with its pin 9 toward the flanged end 8, it may be advanced bypicas with the surface of wall 7 at the pica marks, while if it isreversed with its pin 11 toward said end, it may be advanced by picaswith the surface of wall 12, at the nonpareil marks, the latter positionbeing shown in Fig. 1.

A freely removable clamp 13 serves to hold the adjacent wall of theslide 6 against the base flange 2, said clamp comprising spaced walls 15and 15, connected at their upper edge by an integral top strip 16,which, at one end of the clamp, has a widened extension 17 forming ahandle or finger piece, wall 1 1 at the opposite end of the clamp,having an extension piece 18 provided at its end with a member 19 bentat right angles from the lower edge. The manner in which this clampoperates to perform its specified function is clearly shown in Figs. 1and 2.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that by turning the slide or frame6, with its wall 7 against base flange 2, said slide may be eitheradvanced or moved by pica and nonpareil measures, or by measures otherthan these as the occasion arises, using slugs, leads, rules, or quadsas guides.

Having fully described my invention, I claim:

A composing stick, comprising a body having an upturned longitudinaledge, a skeleton slide having parallel sides mounted upon said body andin engagement with said upturned longitudinal side, a member adapted toengage said longitudinal side and one of the said parallel sides of saidslide adjacent thereto, said member comprising a resilient U-shaped bodyportion comprising spaced sides, one of said sides being adapted to fitwithin said skeleton slide, the other of said sides extending forwardlybeyond the first named side and terminating in a relatively narrowstrip, said strip being bent inwardly to engage the bottom of said bodyportion, said inwardly bent strip being adapted for insertion under saidbody portion before said U-shaped body portion of said member engagessaid slide and said upturned side, said bent strip serv- In testimonywhereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

SAMUEL H. BEAN.

ing as a pivotal connection when said engag- \Vitnesses: mg member isbeing lnserted wlthln said I P. L. MARK, skeleton slide, substantiallyas described. 1 T. J. RIPLEY.

